Life at the lake

Thanksgiving at Arlington Beach

by Jordon Cooper.

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Here is the larger context.

Survivorman

Oct 31st, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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Well Mark went Halloweening as Survivorman tonight. I am not sure where the idea came from (other than we watch the show around here every night on OLN but then again, he didn’t ask to go as Jason Hawes or Grant Wilson from Ghost Hunters). We went over the Dollarama and got him an appropriate [...]

What did you read this summer?

Aug 30th, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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I never read much this summer (compared to other summers at least) but I did get some reading done. Here is the list. The Kennedys by Peter Collier & David Horowitz :: Quite good as it followed the family after RFK’s assassination and the tragedy that kept following even the next generation of Kennedys. The [...]

Why I Love Dopplr

Aug 30th, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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I have become a big fan of Dopplr over the last years. It’s a service that allows you to plan and share your trips online. It also does some fun things like track your personal velocity which as you can see, isn’t that impressive (Joi Ito’s personal velocity is that of a Whippet while Larry [...]

What a Saskatchewan sunset sounds like

Aug 24th, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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The panting you hear at the start is Maggi running by looking for someone to play fetch with.

The death of legalism?

Aug 8th, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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While up at the lake, we ran low on homogenized milk for Oliver and needed to get some on Sunday. We drove out of Arlington Beach to the one horse town of Cymric. There is a store in Cymric but they don’t have whole milk. Instead of turning right to Strasbourg, we went left to [...]

Back from the lake

Aug 5th, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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We are back in Saskatoon for a couple of weeks before we head back to the lake for another week. While we were up there, I took a couple of photos and uploaded them to Flickr. Here is our gazebo at night. Even before we bought it, Wendy purchased some wicker lights and the star [...]

See you later

Jul 24th, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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Wendy and I are off to the cabin for a while. No big agenda, no major projects (other than some painting) but just some vacation time as a family. The plan is to eat some good food, check out North America’s oldest bird sanctuary, race some remote controlled cars, read a couple of books while [...]

One year later

Jul 12th, 2009

by Jordon.

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A friend of mine asked me the other day if we had any regrets about purchasing our cabin last summer. The discussion revolved around the size, the restrictions on use, and the idea of the being permanently anchored to one place for vacation. The Size There are four of us using under 300 square feet. [...]

The Gazebo

Jul 11th, 2009

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After looking for around for almost two years, we finally decided on a gazebo for the cabin. We took it up on Thursday night and installed it on Friday. After a couple of hours screwing things together, it was up, anchored, and ready for us to use it the next time we go up. It’s [...]

Maggi at the lake

Jul 8th, 2009

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We had Maggi out at the lake two weekends ago. The great retriever lacks the elevation to find her Frisbee when it gets tossed out in the water sometimes and here she heading back to shore so she can get a couple of feet higher and find the disc. I am not sure if she [...]

New fishing rod

Jul 5th, 2009

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I am not a passionate fisherman by any extent of the imagination. I went a couple of times as a kid and I can count all of the fish I have caught on two hands but since we own a cabin and I have a kid who wants to fish, so I decided we needed [...]

Weekend at the lake

Jun 29th, 2009

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We just got back from the lake a while ago. We were going to head up on Friday night but some complications arose as Mark’s baby sitter took the kids to the zoo and they got back late. Wendy and I were dead tired and instead of driving up to the cabin, we decided to [...]

Done

Jun 25th, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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Well Mark brought home his report card and when I joked that he was going to be in grade three again, he wept (and I felt horrible). So I quickly assured him not only did he pass but he did well. The truth is that despite having a horrible year at school, his marks were [...]